User:Esprqii/OHS Quiz

Here is the quiz from the February 142008 Oregonian on Oregon history that purportedly can be solved by the Oregon Historical Society's Oregon Encyclopedia. However, my challenge to you is to solve it using only Wikipedia. If you want to play, for each question provide links on the answer page (/OHS_Quiz_answers) to as many WPOR articles that answer the question. Let's see how broad our knowledge is.


 * 1) Why did the state sponsor a rock concert along the banks of the Clackamas River on a hot August weekend in 1970?
 * 2) What Oregon politician ran for vice president in 1860 as a pro-Southern sympathizer?
 * 3) Who is Oregon's only winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction writing?
 * 4) What was "Oshu Nippo" and who read it?
 * 5) What Oregon singer did Tony Bennett call "the father of rock 'n' roll"?
 * 6) Why did Simon Benson pay for 20 public drinking foundations in Portland?
 * 7) In 1900 1902, what Portland writer told the world about Sacagawea and made her a famous woman in Oregon history?
 * 8) When was the last public execution conducted in Oregon?
 * 9) What famous Oregon artist worked in the sign department of the Oregon State Motor Association?
 * 10) What was the Roseburg blast of 1959?

See here for plot spoiler: /OHS_Quiz_answers

--Esprqii (talk) 18:30, 14 February 2008 (UTC)